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FIFA consider time out for extra time

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 14:42

FIFA is to consider abolishing extra time at the World Cup and going straight to penalties if knockout matches are drawn.

President Sepp Blatter also said that FIFA would look at ways of encouraging teams to play a more attacking game after a flurry of low-scoring contests in the early stages of this year's World Cup in South Africa.

"In the first few matches of the group stage in South Africa, we witnessed some teams that went out to avoid defeat, that were playing for a draw from the outset," he told FIFA's website.

"This is a topic that I would like to discuss at upcoming football and technical committee meetings. We have to try to find a way to encourage free-flowing football in tournaments like the World Cup, with teams playing to win.

"We plan to take the opportunity to look at the concept of extra time as well. Often we see teams set themselves up even more defensively in extra time, in an attempt to avoid conceding a goal at all costs.

"To prevent this, we could go directly to a penalty shootout at full time, or reintroduce the golden goal rule. We'll see what emerges from the committee meetings."

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Submitted by noddy the sandwich (not verified) on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 16:38.

Extra time is not a problem, the problem is bad referring, players getting away with diving, shirt pulling etc. Trust Blatter to ignore the real problems and invent non existing ones. The video or lack of it, this the biggest problem in football, next of course to Blatter himself.

Submitted by Olawale O.K (not verified) on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 15:42.

It is better to allow the extra time. Because i believe the winning team will always emerge irrespective of whichever rule FIFA brings.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 15:24.

If a team can't win in the normal 90 minutes whats the point in giving them another 30?

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